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8 Classic Cocktails You Should Know How To Make For The Holidays
The holiday season likely means you’re in for a few weeks of social gatherings, parties, shindigs, and a lot more heavy meals than normal. Along with all that socializing and eating will likely be a drink or two. And while fine wine or a good beer are worthy social lubricants,…
35 Cocktails Every Guy Should Know How to Make
Whether you work in the food and bev industry or you simply enjoy a homemade cocktail from time to time, it's important to have a steady lineup of drinks you know by heart. I find that it's the mark of a good and gracious host to be able to offer…
The 3 Best Cocktails To Put in a Flask
Flasks are perfect for whiskey and other straight spirits. But sometimes you want something that brings different flavors and a lower ABV. Enter the flask cocktail. When it comes to times that it'd be nice to have a cocktail in a flask, I’m thinking first of weddings. There are plenty…
Our 11 Favorite Cocktails This Year That Are Perfect For the Holidays
The Cool Material team sipped and suggested plenty of weekend cocktails this year. Many were seasonally appropriate, and ranged from classics to modern takes on classics. A handful are also the perfect addition to any holiday get-together, large or small, family or friends. When it comes to holiday drinks, there…
Holiday Party Essentials: 10 Bottles (and Cocktails) Spirits Experts Suggest Bringing
Getting together for the holidays — whether it’s with friends, family, or both — is made all the better with the right drink. A few bottles of sparkling wine will surely be present, but sometimes the occasion calls for something a little stronger. A quality spirit and a house cocktail…
What to Drink This Weekend: Sazerac
Looking for a new cocktail to try out this weekend? Want to wind down with a fresh new drink? We’ve got you covered. Here’s what you should drink this weekend. The Sazerac is an American classic. The official cocktail of New Orleans, the Sazerac drink was named for a particular…
The 10 Best Gin Cocktails To Try
Cocktail joints continue to expand their presence in the bar market, but you don’t have to don a vest or perfectly waxed mustache to make delicious drinks at home. All it takes is a well-stocked home bar, a steady hand, and good recipe. And boom, you can be your own…
The 12 Best Cocktails You’ve Never Heard Of
When it comes to cocktails, the combination of spirit, mixer, and other mixers will never go out of style. While we're all for--and inclined to order--the decidedly old school cocktails like the Manhattan, Old Fashioned, Gimlet, and Vodka Tonic, there are quite a few other "New Age" (for lack of…
What’s the Deal With Vermouth?
Unless you spent your formative years in Italy or France a few decades ago, you probably don't know much about vermouth except for the fact it's a key component in some classic cocktails. You probably also have a bottle or two of it buried at the back of your fridge…
Rye Aged in Absinthe Barrels
Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. and Copper & Kings American Brandy Co. are producing some of the most interesting spirits to come out of Kentucky in ages. It got even more interesting and innovative when the two brands teamed up for something truly special--Peerless x Copper & Kings Rye Aged in…
10 Cocktails for Your Thanksgiving Table
We don’t know about you, but drinking beer with Thanksgiving dinner never quite felt right. Don’t get us wrong, we’ll happily do it, but we’ll do it with a slight guilt. There was already so much time spent on the dinner, what’s another fifteen minutes or so for batch mixing…
7 Alcoholic Punches Your Ancestors Would Want You to Drink
Alcoholic punch has suffered a bit of a dip in popularity, and by bit of a dip we mean its popularity almost completely evaporated since its peak in the 17th and 18th centuries. The invention of the cocktail eclipsed the punchbowl, although invention is a generous word, since cocktails are…
It’s Time to Start Making Cocktails With Scotch Again
Three Scotch Cocktails Invented by Great Bartenders A long time ago, a bunch of stuffy old men started making everyone feel bad for drinking “contaminated” scotch. Their scorn and guilt tripping turned scotch into the solemn, contemplative pursuit we know it as today. That kind of drinking is great if…
1990 Singer Porsche 911
Singer Vehicle Design is an outfit that restores and reimagines vintage Porche 911s. The latest client-commissioned build was undertaken with the help of Williams Advanced Engineering, and, to no one's surprise, she's a beaut. Scott Blattner, the client in this scenario, wanted his 1990 Porsche 964 ("964" is the company's…
Campfire Cocktails: Drinks for Sipping around the Firepit
Barring some unseasonable heat waves, it’s about the time of year people start breaking out the fire pits. Neighborhoods start to smell like tasteful bonfires and people stop barbecuing so much and start splitting wood and roasting marshmallows. And they stop drinking so many light summer beers and move on…
